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Law Center examines medical research
by bryan bumgardner
staff writer

What if your genes, the stuff
that makes up DNA, could be
patented by pharmaceutical
companies? What if the process could save your life?
The West Virginia University
Law Center will be hosting Professor Michael Risch to discuss
the issues presented by patent
law in innovative medical research. Risch will present his
keynote address “Rethinking

Patent Quality” at noon today
in the Marlyn E. Lugar Courtroom at the WVU College of
Law.
A debate panel of representatives from the School of
Medicine, Villanova University School of Law, and Mylan
Pharmaceuticals will discuss
the topic of “Patentability of
Human Genetic Material” following the address. The debate
will be moderated by WVU associate professor of law Shine
Tu.

Tu said the event is inspired
by recent legal cases. In 2009, a
lawsuit was filed against Myriad Genetics, a molecular diagnostic company that has discovered a way to isolate genes
that reveal a person’s likelihood to contract breast cancer.
The plaintiffs, represented
by the American Civil Liberties Union, argued that Myriad’s patents on isolated genes
are invalid, and several appeals
later, the Supreme Court is currently considering whether to

accept or reject the case.
Tu said it is not clear if a human gene that has been removed, isolated and then purified from the cell can be
considered intellectual property or a natural product.
“The broader question is
whether genes in general
should be considered patentable subject matter,” Tu said.
Placing a patent on a raw
material occurring in nature is
currently prohibited. If the natural material is manipulated

by man, Tu said, it can be patented: a purified form of human adrenaline was patented
in 1906.
Defenders of patent laws
argue the patents protect the
company’s investment in developing the technology, which
was difficult and expensive to
create.
Challengers of the patents
also argue the human body is
pure and cannot be patented.
They may agree with patents
on the methods used to find

by lacey palmer
staff writer

wvu today

Left to right: WVU students Taylor Richmond, B. Jay Hatfield, Daniel Carlson and Jonathan Kimble are finalists in the competition to become the next Mountaineer Mascot.

Four students compete to become the next WVU mascot
CITY EDITOR

THE MOUNTAINEER CHEER-OFF

WHAT: Finalists will participate in a cheer-off to get
the crowd going & impress the selection committee.
For Daniel Carlson, it’s his duty. For WHERE: Men’s home basketball game vs. Marquette.
Jonathon Kimble, it “just comes natu- WHEN: Tonight at 9.
rally.” For B. Jay Hatfield, it’s a chance
to be a positive role model. And for Tay- and will replace Mountaineer Brock
lor Richmond, it’s a dedication to the Burwell, who has held the position for
University.
the past two years.
The four West Virginia University stuCarlson, a senior business adminisdents will don buckskins tonight at the tration and international management
men’s basketball game against Mar- student from Winchester, Va., is a memquette to compete for the position of ber of the West Virginia Air National
the next Mountaineer mascot.
Guard and said being the Mountaineer
Each finalist will compete in a cheer- means having the chance to serve the
off to see who can get the crowd going people of the state in a special way.
and impress the selection committee.
“The state of West Virginia has done
The winner will be announced during so much for me. When I swore with the
the second half of the WVU men’s bas- Guard, I swore my life to the state, and
ketball game against DePaul Tuesday being the Mountaineer will help me

continue that,” he said. “I went from
being an uneducated driller to a senior with so many opportunities. I’m
indebted to the state and the University, and I want to give back – especially
to the youth of West Virginia. I want to
tell middle school and high school students how great it is to set a goal and
achieve it.”
Carlson, who struggled in the past
and dropped out of college, said the
compassion and unity of the people of
West Virginia helped him get to where
he is today.
“When the UBB tragedy happened,
we gathered together and mourned for
the miners during a candlelight vigil, and
when we have a major accomplishment,

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Storytelling inspires professor’s career in photography
by lydia nuzum

associate city editor

For photographer Abby
Robinson, the “storytelling of
art” has both fascinated and
inspired a level of intimacy
throughout her career.
“You have to ask yourself,
‘How do I make a whole out of
all of these little parts?’ and you
have to ask yourself ‘What is going on here?’ That’s what is consciously going on in my head as
I shoot,” Robinson said.
Robinson, a professor at the

School of Visual Arts in New
York City, gave a presentation
on her work as a photographer Thursday for students in
the Perley Issac Reed School
of Journalism at West Virginia
University and discussed the
ideas that influenced her work
and career.
“One of the things that all of
her projects have in common
is that there is a really interesting dialogue that both provokes and invites,” said Lois
Raimondo, sssistant professor
of Journalism at WVU. “She cre-

ates what I think of as ‘cultural
texts,’ because when you look at
them on one level, you can be
intrigued by them, excited by
them, but when you read her
words there is a whole other set
of doors that start opening.”
Robinson, who has been a
featured contributor in Newsweek, The New York Times,
People Magazine and The Village Voice, said she stumbled
into photography as a passion
during her undergraduate and
graduate college career.
“Someone gave me a cam-

era between my junior and senior year of college, and I took
pictures, but I was so disgusted
that I couldn’t figure out how
to get the camera to work that I
threw the film out without ever
developing it,” Robinson said.
Her photo projects include
“The Perdue Project,” a collection of photographs depicting various body parts of
both strangers and friends,
and “In Camera,” a series of
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the genes, Tu said, but they argue that patents on the genes
themselves violate the law.
“The analogy was, ‘identifying a mutated gene is like
trying to spot a penny on the
ground from the top of the Empire State Building,’” Tu said. Tu
said if a company can’t get a
patent to protect their investment, it simply won’t spend resources to make the potentially
lifesaving technology.

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INSIDE THIS EDITION
The West Virginia baseball team is traveling south
for a tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
SPORTS PAGE 9

One program is celebrating three years of helping
students and faculty at West
Virginia University find safe
transportation while at the
same time protecting the
environment.
Zimride, an online service
that allows users to find and
post rides through its University networks, currently
serves more than 450 users,
according to Hugh Kierig,
Director of Transportation
and Parking at WVU.
“Zimride is our online
carpool matching program
where you can put in your
destination and origin for
your trip and how frequently
you need it, and it matches
you with other people who
have got similar trips and
similar times,” Kierig said.
Zimride is a San Francisco-based company that
services a variety of college campuses, and is integrated through social networking sites like Facebook
to make it easier for people
to connect.
Kierig said students use
the service to find rides
home for holiday breaks or
to and from campus if they

don’t live downtown.
The Zimride program is
perfect for the WVU community, because it’s dedicated to providing safe rides
and allows users to contact
fellow riders beforehand,
Kierig said.
“It’s strictly for people
with WVU email addresses,
so that’s another safeguard,”
he said. “It’s not like the
general public can go online and use the site.”
Kierig said it’s also a quick
and easy way for students to
make money.
The driver can have passengers pay Zimride, and
Zimride pays the driver
to avoid the exchange of
money, or passengers riding together can decide
amongst themselves how to
arrange the payment.
The site also works with
the Zipcar program at WVU,
which allows students
to rent a car and use it
around campus if they
meet certain eligibility
requirements.
Students and faculty can
visit http://zimride.wvu.edu
to sign up through Facebook
and start finding rides for
the upcoming spring break.
danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

During World War II, a
group of African American
pilots overcame racial prejudice to become one of the
best U.S. fighter squadrons
in the entire war.
On Thursday, the West
Virginia University Gluck
Theatre presented a documentary featuring the true
story of the pilots known as
the Tuskegee Airmen.
The film, titled “The
Tuskegee Airmen,” was presented by Marjorie Fuller, director of the WVU Center for
Black Culture and Research,
in celebration of Black History Month.
“I’m really happy to see
that the African-American
heroes of World War II are
finally being recognized for
their sacrifices and achievements,” Fuller said.
“The Tuskegee Airmen”
is the popular name of the
332nd Fighter Group of the
U.S. Army Air Corps. They
were the first African-American military aviators to
ever serve in the U.S. armed
forces and faced racial discrimination both within and
outside the Army, Fuller
said.

The Tuskegee Airmen
served with distinction, and
450 of the airmen earned
more than 850 medals in Europe and North Africa.
Ed Hargro, a retired pharmaceutical salesman whose
father was a Tuskegee Airman, said he felt the film
captured the true attitude of
the pilots.
“They didn’t think that
they were part of history,
you know? They just thought
this was something they had
to do as Americans,” he said.
The film was hosted as
part of the Multicultural
Brown Bag Lunch Film Series, and each week a different culture is profiled by a
short film and discussion.
James R. Johnson from the
Office of Multicultural Programs said students should
take the opportunity to immerse themselves in culture through events like the
Brown Bag Lunches.
“Anyone can come for
free. At the end, I can ask
you about your culture, and
you can ask me about mine.
We could both learn something and become friends,”
he said.
Johnson said cultural

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ON THE
BUBBLE
The WVU men’s basketball
team will host No. 10 Marquette tonight in hopes
of improving its NCAA
tournament resume.
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Hometown: Winchester, Va.
Major: Business Admin.
Jonathan Kimble

Hometown: Franklin, W.Va.
Major: Sport Management

we join together to celebrate,”
he said. “That’s what Mountaineer spirit is all about – knowing
you come from a state that supports one another in good times
and bad. You just can’t find that
type of pride and energy anywhere else.”
Kimble, a senior sport management student from Franklin, W.Va., serves as the current
alternate Mountaineer Mascot. He is also a member of the
Mountaineer Maniacs leadership board and the treasurer of
the Sport Management Club.
Kimble said he’s wanted the
chance to serve as Mountaineer since the first time he attended a WVU football game.
“At my very first game, everyone said I should try out.
Jumping up and down, cheering and getting the crowd excited just came natural for
me. I’ve always had that passion for WVU sports,” he said.
“Ever since, I’ve had a desire
to be down there on that field

firing off that rifle in front of
60,000 people.”
Kimble said with WVU’s
move to the Big 12 conference, it’s more important than
ever to have a Mountaineer
who’s dedicated to promoting what the University’s all
about.
“The Mountaineer represents the whole state of West
Virginia. It really is the perfect
mascot and symbol of WVU:
hardworking, dedicated, quick
to help others and satisfied
with what we have,” he said.
“We’re going to be making a
lot of first impressions with
new schools, and that’s huge.
I want to make sure the country knows what a great family
we have here. No matter where
you go, you can find Mountaineer pride. We’re not like
other universities.”
For Hatfield, a senior athletic coaching education student from Madison, W.Va.,
growing up in a small southern town has taught him a lot
about West Virginia pride.
“I grew up in Boone County,
and I’m very proud of where

Friday February 24, 2012

I’m from. Being able to exclaim my pride for this state
and University is something
that means a lot to me,” he
said.
Hatfield said being a Mountaineer means staying positive
when times get rough and always working hard to do the
best you can.
“It’s about being a positive
role model and always striving to be the best. Mountaineers work to reach the summit
of the mountain – whether it’s
academics or athletics – we
want to be the best. Most importantly, we never let things
get us down,” he said. “I just
want to be able to give back to
the state and the school that’s
given so much to me.”
Richmond, a public administration graduate student
from Mt. Hope, W.Va., served
on the Student Government
Association board of governors and is a member of Shriners International and a Gold
and Blue Student Ambassador.
He is also a former alternate
Mountaineer Mascot.
“All of the candidates are

great guys, but what really
sets me apart is the service I’ve
done in the past five years. Being wild and energetic at the
games is only one aspect of being a Mountaineer. It’s also a
dedication to the University
and community,” he said.
“That’s one of the big aspects
of the Mountaineer Mascot that
people don’t always think about.
What you do as a Mountaineer
off the court is a great opportunity to shed a positive light about
the people in this state and at
this school, and I want to do that
on a much larger scale.”
Richmond said when it
comes to college mascots,
there’s no comparison to the
Mountaineer.
“It’s not a character – it’s an
actual person. It’s so great to
be somewhere you’ve never
been and have someone ask
why you’re dressed like that
and get to tell them what you
really represent,” Richmond
said. “It’s a chance to talk
about the state that I love so
much.”
mackenzie.mays@mail.wvu.edu

Gay marriage close to legal in Maryland
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gay
marriage is all but legalized in
Maryland after the legislature
gave its final OK Thursday to the
law that’s being sent to Gov. Martin O’Malley, who said he expects
to sign it sometime this week.
The state Senate voted 25-22
for the law. The vote comes less
than a week after the House of
Delegates barely passed the
measure.
Maryland will become the
eighth state to allow gay marriage when O’Malley – who
sponsored the bill – signs the
legislation. The Democrat made
the measure a priority this session after it stalled last year.
“This issue has taken a lot of
energy, as well it should, and
I’m very proud of the House
of Delegates and also the Senate for resolving this issue on
the side of human dignity, and
I look forward to signing the

bill,” O’Malley said in a brief
interview after the Senate vote.
Opponents, though, have
vowed to bring the measure
to referendum in November.
They will need to gather at least
55,726 valid signatures of Maryland voters to put it on the ballot and can begin collecting
names now that the bill has
passed both chambers.
Some churches and clergy
members have spoken out
against the bill, saying it threatens religious freedoms and violates their tradition of defining
marriage as between a man and
a woman.
“The enormous public outcry that this legislation has
generated – voiced by Marylanders that span political, racial, social and religious backgrounds – demonstrates a clear
need to take this issue to a vote
of the people,” Maryland Cath-

olic Conference spokeswoman
Kathy Dempsey said in a statement. “Every time this issue has
been brought to a statewide
vote, the people have upheld
traditional marriage.”
Leaders at the Human Rights
Campaign, a group that joined a
coalition of organizations to advocate for the bill, said they expect opponents will gather the
required number of signatures.
“There remains a lot of work to
do between now and November
to make marriage equality a reality in Maryland,” Joe Solmonese,
HRC president said in a statement
released Thursday. “Along with
coalition partners, we look forward to educating and engaging
voters about what this bill does:
It strengthens all Maryland families and protects religious liberty.”
Senators rejected some
amendments to the legislation
Thursday. Proponents warned

that amending the bill could
kill it because gathering enough
support for altered legislation
in the House would be difficult.
Last year senators passed a
similar measure by 25-21, but
the bill died in the House after
delegates rescinded their initial support citing concerns that
it could violate religious liberties
of churches and business owners who do not support same-sex
unions.
Sen. Allan Kittleman, the
only Senate Republican to vote
in favor of the legislation, said
he is proud of his decision and
not concerned about political
consequences down the road.
“You don’t worry about politics when you’re dealing with
the civil rights issue of your
generation,” said Kittleman,
R-Howard, the son of the late
Sen. Robert Kittleman, who was
known for civil rights advocacy.

Dow Jones flirts with 13,000 again but can’t
NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow
Jones industrial average made
another run at 13,000 but
couldn’t quite get there.
Stocks recovered from an
early loss Thursday and pushed
the Dow within four points of
the milestone. Investors were
encouraged by more good news
on U.S. jobs, but gains were limited by poor results from retailers such as Safeway and Kohl’s.
The Dow finished up 46.02
points at 12,984.69. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained
5.80 points to close at 1,363.46.
The Nasdaq composite index climbed 23.81 points to
2,956.98.
The Dow pierced 13,000
three times Tuesday but could
not hold the milestone. The
average hasn’t closed above
13,000 since May 19, 2008, four

months before the financial
crisis.
Investors were encouraged
Thursday after the government
reported that the number of
people seeking unemployment
benefits last week was unchanged. The four-week average was the lowest in four years.
High unemployment has
been a problem for retailers,
which have been forced to
slash prices even though they
are paying more to make and
ship their goods. The burden
showed in Thursday’s earnings
reports.
Kohl’s, the department
store chain, sank 6 percent after weak holiday sales caused
it to miss Wall Street estimates
for revenue and earnings. Grocery store chain Safeway Inc.
plunged more than 7 percent

after reporting a 6 percent drop
in profit.
Part of the problem is the rising cost of gas, which could hurt
the economic recovery. The
price of gas is rising as tensions
mount over Iran’s nuclear program. A gallon of regular sells
for $3.61 on average, the highest on record this time of year.
The price of oil jumped again
Thursday, to $107.83, a ninemonth high and up $1.52 for
the day. Besides Iran, analysts
blamed the falling U.S. dollar.
When the dollar falls in value,
it takes more dollars for foreign
buyers to pay for the same barrel of oil.
The euro jumped to a twomonth high against the dollar,
$1.337, up almost a penny from
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Dillard’s, another department store chain, and the discount chain Target also missed
analysts’ estimates. Earlier this
week, Wal-Mart fell short on
earnings and revenue after aggressive discounts for the holidays cut into profit margin.
Sears Holdings Corp., which
owns Sears, Kmart and Land’s
End, also missed estimates for
revenue and per-share earnings. Its stock soared 19 percent, but that was because it
outlined plans to spin off some
stores and sell others.
For the most part, U.S. stocks
have been rising since Thanksgiving, as the most potent fears
of last summer – that the country would enter another recession, and that the European
debt crisis would damage the
U.S. economy – have dissipated.

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relations can help create a
more positive community.
“It takes all of us to make
the world a better place. We
all need to reach out and connect with other people,” he
said.
Fuller said the films boost
cultural relationships on
campus and serve to educate

research

Continued from page 1
Tu said he believes this
event will help develop understandings about patent law
and the public policy issues
that stem from possibly patenting genetic material.
“The idea is, where do we
make that distinction? Do we
want to make patentable subject matter very broad or very
narrow? What are the policy
concerns we’re looking at
here,” he said.
Risch will be a member

Funeral procession to alter
downtown traffic
Traffic patterns will be altered and delayed beginning at 1 p.m. today as the
community honors fallen
Morgantown Deputy Michael “Todd” May.
May was killed in the line
of duty during a police pursuit and crash last weekend
when a driver suspected of
being under the influence
of drugs and alcohol hit his
cruiser.
Interstate 68 West will
be closed at 1 p.m. to allow
the traffic from the funeral
procession to exit Chestnut
Ridge Church in Cheat Lake.
The procession will then
travel to I-68, exit 1, University Avenue; then north
onto University Avenue,
Beechurst Avenue and
Monongahela Boulevard;

then onto I-79, entrance
155 north towards the Ruff
Creek exit on Pennsylvania
I-79, exit 19; and then towards Greene County Memorial Park, 1003 Jefferson
Road, Waynesburg, Pa.
Motorists are urged to
use caution, use alternate
routes and be respectful to
the funeral procession.
Upon the funeral procession entering I-68, the West
Virginia State Police will block
all westbound traffic for vehicles in the procession.
Once the funeral procession enters I-79 north at entrance 155, traffic will once
again be blocked to allow
the funeral procession to
travel toward Pennsylvania.
—mdm

career

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photographic studios taken
in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India.
“When you look at her
work, it opens itself up in all
sorts of different ways,” Raimondo said. “It’s really interesting, the dialogue that happens within them.”
Raimondo said Robinson
is different from many photojournalists because while
journalists are focused on
seeking out answers, Robinson’s work focuses on the
questions that exist in a particular scene or subject.
“Abby lingers in the questions, and I think some really
interesting thoughts and explorations come out of someone brave enough to stay in
the questions longer,” Raistudents on different cultures
that exist on campus.
“I think there’s a lot about
our culture and AfricanAmerican culture – because
African-American culture is
American culture – that people don’t know,” she said. “So
when we present movies like
this and have discussions,
it broadens people’s understandings of who we are.
“When you broaden those
understandings, you make

of the panel, as well as Steven H. Flynn, Vice President
of Mylan Inc., and Angela C.
Obringer, professor from the
School of Medicine.
Tu said he expects a
lively discussion during the
event.
“It’ll be a really fun debate.
We have a fun panel, with a
lot of different perspectives,”
he said.
For more information, or to
watch the speech and debates
live on the web, visit http://
law.wvu.edu/patents.
danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

mondo said.
Robinson earned her
bachelor’s degree in history
of architecture from Barnard
College and a masters of fine
arts in photography from
the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She offers a four
week intensive photography
workshop each summer in
Shanghai, China, from June
9 to July 7 for college students
with at least one year of experience in photography.
The workshop, sponsored
through the School of Visual
Arts, offers four studio credits for participating students.
For more information on the
workshop and how to apply,
visit http://artsabroad.sva.
edu.
To view photography by
Abby Robinson, visit www.
abbyrobinson.com.
lydia.nuzum@mail.wvu.edu

communication better and it
creates a better feeling across
campus.”
The next Brown Bag Lunch
will feature a documentary
called “Poto-Milan, Hatian
Women, Pillars of the Global
Economy” on March 8. It will
be presented by Dr. Gwen
Bergner, associate professor
for the WVU Department of
English.
danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Study: GOP’s Gingrich, Santorum plans hike deficit
WASHINGTON (AP) — Massive tax cuts proposed by GOP
presidential candidates Newt
Gingrich and Rick Santorum
would cause the national debt
to explode while Mitt Romney’s
budget plan could generate red
ink in line with current projections, according to a new study
released Thursday.
The nonpartisan Committee
for a Responsible Federal Budget, a Washington-based budget watchdog group, estimates
that the wrenching budget cuts
proposed by Ron Paul would
lessen the flow of red ink compared with current policies but
still leave the government running a sizable deficit.
The GOP candidates’ budget
plans provide a sharp contrast
with President Barack Obama,
who released his latest fiscal
blueprint just last week that includes proposals to raise taxes
on the wealthy.
Like Obama, the GOP candidates have the luxury of suspending political reality and
assuming lawmakers would
quickly enact their ideas into
law.
That translates into a tax
code in which taxes on investments and capital gains
are sharply reduced or eliminated. Each GOP candidate
would eliminate inheritance
taxes on large estates. And tax
rates on individuals would be
cut as well – all in the face of
deficits that economists say
would eventually cripple the
economy.
The results, according to the

ap

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at a debate watching party Wednesday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
study, would be higher deficits, except in the case of Paul,
whose spending cuts dwarf
anything being considered by
his three rivals.
According to the study, Gingrich’s plan would add $7 trillion to the nation’s debt over
the coming nine years – almost doubling the deficits
that would be recorded if the
government basically ran on
autopilot. Santorum’s plan
would add $4.5 trillion over
the period, or about $500 bil-

lion to the deficit every year on
average.
By contrast, Romney’s proposal would add $250 billion
to the deficit over nine years,
though that estimate was generated before he unveiled a
new tax proposal this week that
could add considerably to the
deficit.
And Paul, whose budget
plans include eliminating five
Cabinet departments, immediately ending operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan, and sharply

cutting federal programs like
Medicaid and food stamps,
would reduce the deficit by
$2.2 trillion. He is the only candidate whose spending cuts exceed the amount of revenue
lost by cutting taxes.
By the end of fiscal 2016, little more than a month before
Election Day, Gingrich’s plan
would produce a deficit of 7.8
percent of the economy, or almost $1.5 trillion. Santorum’s
blueprint would produce a deficit in the $1.2 trillion range, or

6.5 percent of gross domestic
product. And Romney’s plan –
given the benefit of the doubt
since his new tax plan is so
vague — would generate a 2016
deficit of between $700-800 billion or so. Paul’s plan would
leave a 2016 deficit of almost
$500 billion.
Obama’s budget claims a
$649 billion deficit by 2016, relying on tax increases to do it.
The group didn’t publish
specific deficit figures for 2016
but provided estimates of them
as a percentage of GDP to The
Associated Press, which calculated them based on the economic estimates of the Congressional Budget Office.
The four GOP candidates
vying to replace Obama each
promise sweeping tax cuts,
even as the deficit under current policies would never fall
below $600 billion over the
coming decade.
Gingrich, for example,
would give taxpayers the option of a 15 percent flat tax rate,
while Santorum promises to reduce the current five-bracket
system to two, with rates of 28
percent and 10 percent. Each
idea would mean trillions of
dollars less in revenue for the
government.
Romney’s latest tax plan
would cut the top income tax
rate from 35 percent to 28 percent and the other rates by
20 percent each, paid for by
broadening the tax base and
eliminating numerous deductions. But the plan lacks sufficient specifics to be “scored”

with any precision.
The candidates’ ambitious
budget plans contrast with
GOP leaders in Congress,
who have focused on retaining the full menu of Bush-era
tax cuts rather than attempting
to cut taxes further – and have
opened the door to higher tax
revenues as part of a comprehensive deficit-cutting deal.
Last week, Obama proposed
tax increases of almost $2 trillion over the coming decade –
chiefly by ending Bush-era cuts
on individual income exceeding $200,000 and year and family income exceeding $250,000.
The budget group’s advisers include many Democratic
deficit hawks and Republicans
unafraid to advocate for higher
taxes. The group acknowledged
plenty of wiggle room in the
study since many of the candidates’ proposals are vague or
haven’t been reviewed by official sources, like the Congressional Budget Office.
The Tax Policy Center, a respected joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings
Institution, provided the basis
for many of the estimates of the
candidates’ tax proposals.
The group offers three different scenarios for each candidate, which incorporated
different assumptions that depend on how vague or specific
a candidate’s proposals are.
The group chiefly trumpeted
an “intermediate” scenario
that represented the group’s
best estimate of the candidate’s
budget plans.

With cameras, informants, New York Police Department eyed mosques
NEW YORK (AP) — When a
Danish newspaper published
inflammatory cartoons of
Prophet Muhammad in September 2005, Muslim communities around the world
erupted in outrage. Violent
mobs took to the streets in the
Middle East. A Somali man
even broke into the cartoonist’s
house in Denmark with an ax.
In New York, thousands of
miles away, it was a different
story. At the Masjid Al-Falah
in Queens, one leader condemned the cartoons but said
Muslims should not resort to
violence. Speaking at the Masjid Dawudi mosque in Brooklyn, another called on Muslims
to speak out against the cartoons, but peacefully.
The sermons, all protected
under the First Amendment to
the Constitution, were reported
back to the NYPD by the department’s network of mosque
informants. They were compiled in police intelligence reports and summarized for Police Commissioner Raymond
Kelly.
Those documents offer
the first glimpse of what the
NYPD’s informants — known
informally as “mosque crawlers” — gleaned from inside
the houses of worship. And,
along with hundreds of pages
of other secret NYPD documents obtained by The Associated Press, they show police
targeting mosques and their
congregations with tactics
normally reserved for criminal
organizations.
They did so in ways that
brushed against – and civil
rights lawyers say at times violated – a federal court order restricting how police can gather
intelligence.
The NYPD Intelligence Division snapped pictures and collected license plate numbers
of congregants as they arrived
to pray. Police mounted cameras on light poles and aimed
them at mosques. Plainclothes
detectives mapped and photographed mosques and listed
the ethnic makeup of those
who prayed there.
“It seems horrible to me that
the NYPD is treating an entire
religious community as potential terrorists,” said civil rights
lawyer Jethro Eisenstein, who
reviewed some of the documents and is involved in a decades-old, class-action lawsuit
against the police department
for spying on protesters and
political dissidents. The lawsuit
is known as the Handschu case.
The documents provide a
fuller picture of the NYPD’s
unapologetic approach to protecting the city from terrorism.
Eisenstein said he believes
that at least one document, the
summary of statements about
the Danish cartoons, showed
that the NYPD is not following
a court order that prohibits police from compiling records on
people who are simply exercising their First Amendment
rights.
“This is a flat-out violation,” Eisenstein said. “This is

ap

In this Sept. 11, 2002, file photo Imam Omar Abu Namous, right, leads prayer service at the Islamic Center of New York, one of hundreds of religious services held nationally to mourn
those killed on Sept. 11.
a smoking gun.”
Kelly, the police commissioner, has said the NYPD complies with its legal obligations:
“We’re following the Handschu
guidelines,” Kelly said in October during a rare City Council oversight hearing about the
NYPD surveillance of Muslims.
The AP has reported for
months that the NYPD infiltrated mosques, eavesdropped
in cafes and monitored Muslim neighborhoods. New Muslim converts who took Arabic
names were compiled in police
databases.
Recently, the NYPD has
come under fire for its tactics. Universities including
Yale and Columbia have criticized the department for infiltrating Muslim student groups
and trawling their websites. Police put the names of students
and academics in reports even
when they were not suspected
of wrongdoing. And in Newark,
N.J., Mayor Cory Booker said
he was offended by the NYPD’s
secret surveillance of his city’s
Muslims.
After the AP revelations,
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez
(D-N.J.) called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to
look into the NYPD operation
in Newark. U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), said the NYPD
shouldn’t be operating in New
Jersey without notifying local
and federal authorities.
In a statement, Pascrell said
profiling was wrong: “We must
focus on behavioral profiling rather ethnic or religious
profiling.”
NYPD spokesman Paul
Browne did not respond to
an email seeking comment.
Browne has previously de-

nied the NYPD used mosque
crawlers or that there was a secret Demographics Unit that
monitored daily life in Muslim
communities.
At a press event on Thursday,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg refused to answer questions
about the NYPD’s activities.
The NYPD spying operations
began after the 2001 terror attacks with unusual help from
a CIA officer. The agency’s inspector general recently found
that relationship problematic
but said no laws were broken.
Shortly after that report, the
CIA decided to cut short the
yearlong tour of an operative
who was recently assigned to
the NYPD.

Kelly, the police commissioner, and Bloomberg have
been emphatic that police only
follow legitimate leads of criminal activity and do not conduct
preventive surveillance in ethnic communities.
“If there are threats or leads
to follow, then the NYPD’s job
is to do it,” Bloomberg said last
year. “The law is pretty clear
about what’s the requirement,
and I think they follow the law.
We don’t stop to think about
the religion. We stop to think
about the threats and focus our
efforts there.”
But former and current law
enforcement officials either involved in or with direct knowledge of these programs say

they did not follow leads. The
officials spoke on condition of
anonymity because they were
not authorized to discuss the
secret programs. But the documents support their claims.
Officials say that David Cohen, the deputy commissioner
for intelligence, was at the center of the efforts to spy on the
mosques.
“Take a big net, throw it out,
catch as many fish as you can
and see what we get,” one in-

vestigator recalled Cohen
saying.
The effort highlights one of
the most difficult aspects of policing in the age of terrorism.
Solving crimes isn’t enough.
Police are expected to identify
would-be terrorists and move
in before they can attack.
There are no universally
agreed upon warning signs for
terrorism. Terrorists have used
Internet cafes, stayed in hostels, worked out at gyms, visited travel agencies, attended
student groups and prayed at
mosques. So, the NYPD monitored those areas. In doing so,
they monitored many innocent
people as they went about their
daily lives.
Using plainclothes officers
from the Demographics Unit,
police swept Muslim neighborhoods and catalogued the location of mosques, identifying
them on maps with crescent
moon icons, the well-known
symbol of Islam. The ethnic
makeup of each congregation
was logged as police fanned out
across the city and outside their
jurisdiction, into suburban Long
Island and areas of New Jersey.
“African American, Arab,
Pakistani,” police wrote beneath the photo of one mosque
in Newark.
“Mosque in private house
without any signs. Observed
25 to 30 worshipers exiting
after Jumma prayers,” police
wrote beneath another Newark mosque photo.
As the Demographics Unit
catalogued Internet cafes,
hostels, grocers and travel
agencies, officers noted how
close the businesses were to
mosques.
Investigators looked at
mosques as the center of Muslim life. All their connections
had to be known.

Annual teacher evaluations a must
It’s probably well-known
that our public school system
is in need of improvement.
According to http://challengewv.org, one in four West
Virginia high school students will dropout. How can
our state’s economy improve
when such a large number of
West Virginians lack a basic
high school education?
While it is nearly impossible to monitor students’ home
lives, the state can monitor the
effectiveness of teachers.
Governor Earl Ray Tomblin

is hoping to do just that with
his new bill, House Bill 4236
and Senate Bill 372.
The bill will require teachers to undergo an annual
evaluation based partly on
standardized test scores and
student growth. It will also
include a teacher mentoring
program.
Some argue that it is unfair
to put such a strenuous burden on teachers when they
can’t control students’ behavior or activities outside of
classrooms.

But, far too many teachers
in the school system allow students to be passed on to the
next grade without ensuring
the students have the necessary tools for success.
The evaluations should
be reasonable for the teachers – the state shouldn’t expect miracles to be made in
a year’s time. But, the evaluations would give teachers the
incentive to work with each
other and create more effective curriculums that coincide
with each other.

Annually evaluating teachers will force them to care
about the progress of each
student.
Theoretically, we think of
all teachers as the driving
force behind every student’s
dreams, aspirations and successes. Given the pathetic
dropout rates of our state, it
is foolish to think all West Virginia teachers fit this theoretical mold.
There are other ways to improve teacher performance –
such as paying teachers higher

wages to attract more qualified individuals – but this is a
good step forward.
The bill should be passed
in hopes of offering students
a better future.
This bill probably will not be
a fix-all solution to our states’
public education problem.
But, if the teachers who
aren’t giving students the required attention and motivation are weeded out, it can
only help.

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Let the healthcare dispute
begin.
Last month President
Obama announced that religious organizations would
have to provide employees
with health insurance policies that cover contraception at no charge. The decree
falls under the Department of
Health and Human Services’
powers, thanks to the president’s Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act – otherwise known as Obamacare.
Because many of the affected groups morally oppose
birth control, the decision
drew fierce criticism from the
religious community. Priests,
rabbis and others across the
country have rightly argued
that being required to fund
contraception violates their
freedom of conscience.
In response to the outrage,
President Obama devised an
“accommodation.” According
to the new plan, religious organizations are no longer required to provide their employees with contraception
coverage.
Instead, the burden has
been shifted to the organizations’ insurance companies,
whose plans must now cover
contraception for free.
Although the switch seems
to have bought the president
some political cover, it does
nothing to change the moral
dilemma at hand. Religious
groups are still forced to deal
with insurance companies
that cover birth control.
Furthermore, while the employers are technically no longer paying for their employees’ birth control, insurance
companies will pass along the
costs indirectly.
Putting aside the fact the
president’s alleged concession solves nothing, the debate this issue has sparked
continues to overlook some
vital points.
Nearly every participant in
this dispute has taken one of

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, announces the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, Feb. 10.
two sides: women’s rights or
religious freedom.
To be clear, this issue threatens a woman’s right to contraception in no way whatsoever.
Women are and will remain
perfectly free to use their preferred method of birth control. The question is who will
pay for it.
This is where the real rights
violations arise. Under the
Affordable Care Act, private
parties are legally required
to provide certain services
for others. In this case, faithbased employers must subsidize their employees’ use of
birth control. This particular
case clearly violates the employers’ religious rights, but

the underlying principle extends much further.
The idea that the federal
government can legitimately
force citizen A to serve citizen
B in any capacity flies in the
face of individual liberty. Suppose Congress passed a law
requiring you to wash my car
for free every other Saturday.
Failure to do so would get
you a heavy fine. Wouldn’t you
object to such a law?
Strip away the moralistic
rhetoric about protecting consumers, and healthcare mandates are no different than
car-washing mandates. Both
unjustly compel one party to
supply another with goods
or services against their will.

As conservative columnist
Charles Krauthammer aptly
puts it, this is “government by
presidential fiat.”
Just as important, these
executive decrees violate
the long-standing American ideal of human equality.
Legally forcing one group of
Americans to serve another,
for whatever reason, subordinates the former group to the
latter.
It grants favored classes
certain entitlements that others must sacrifice time and
money to provide. Such a system must be seen as the morally repulsive scheme that it is.
Un f o r t u nat e l y ,
these
broader issues have largely

been lost in the debate over
contraception coverage. Both
sides claim to support individual rights, whether it’s the
right to birth control or the
right to religious freedom.
Despite each side’s passion,
this firestorm isn’t about contraception. It’s about individual liberty versus federal
coercion.
Catholic groups can’t be
legitimately forced to pay for
their workers’ contraception
anymore than you can legitimately be forced to wash my
car – religious beliefs have
nothing to do with it.
We as autonomous individuals have an unalienable right
to live our lives as we see fit,

ap

provided we don’t harm others in doing so. Healthcare
mandates trample that right.
This isn’t the first controversy to develop over the
monolithic Affordable Care
Act, and it certainly won’t be
the last.
As these debates unfold,
Americans must stop tinkering around the law’s edges and
begin questioning its underlying assumption that Washington can justly force citizens to
provide and purchase certain
services from one another.
This discussion is long overdue and will hopefully encourage people to think a little harder about the proper
role of government in society.

General Motors’ record monthly profit is overblown
srivats satish
the daily campus
university of connecticut

Last Thursday automaker
General Motors posted its
largest ever annual profit of
$7.6 billion dollars in net income in 2011.
Only two years apart from
a controversial bailout that is
still argued to this day, GM’s
comeback has been hailed
as one of America’s greatest
economic turnarounds postrecession and this profit will
surely make its way into the
political debate surrounding
the bailouts.
However, taking politics
of the bailout out of the discussion; one can conclude
that despite some positives,
GM’s business still underperformed this past fourth quarter and the company still has a

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long way to go in order to truly
be deserving of such positive
recognition.
GM’s stock value declined
by nearly 26 percent from February 2011 to February 2012,
even with decreased production from competitors such
as Honda and Toyota, due to
the Japanese tsunami. It still
faces problems in regards to
its global pension plan that is
under-funded by $24.5 billion.
GM also struggled in regards to sales outside of North
America, as it posted a $747
million pretax loss in Europe
and a $122 million pretax loss
in South America, while only
earning $1.9 billion in Asia
which is down from 2010 sales.
GM was also able to write off
taxes due to a loss carry over
of $46.4 billion dollars and
avoided paying the $2.98 billion dollars in taxes they would
have theoretically under the
39.2 percent U.S. corporate tax

rate. That would have resulted
in net income of little over $4.5
billion, hardly a record.
GM faces many problems
going forward, but their weak
sales in China and the excessive optimism reported by the
press for baby steps has really
blurred the picture of what
they are and what they aren’t.
A significant chunk of the
$7.2 billion profit from last
year came from cost cutting
measures, specifically wage
cuts. New hires at GM face a
50 percent wage cut from what
they would’ve earned in the
past.
Health care benefits for current and retired workers are
being cut and the company
has frozen pay and shrunk
bonuses for all of its salaried
employees.
To try to soothe investor
concerns about their underfunded pension program, GM
has also worked to transition

future retirement contributions from traditional pension payments into 401(k)
plans. Savings of this nature
might bolster short term stock
prices and depict an optimistic
outlook, but the fact that GM
is struggling in international
sales bleaks the outlook for
their potential growth.
They are planning to increase profitability in Europe
mainly through factory and
job cuts, signaling that they’ve
lost that market to better competitors and are in no position
to expand.
Furthermore, in a world
where GM would have to pay
back it’s bailout money, have
to pay taxes and compete
against strong Japanese manufacturers, it’s safe to say that
GM’s “record profits” and miraculous recovery aren’t all
that they are cracked up to
be. The Chevy volt, GM’s supposed innovative attempt at

a plug-in electric vehicle has
failed to sell, and has even
been probed by the government due to a knack for catching on fire.
This struggle in innovation
hasn’t been remedied two
years after the bail out. The hybrid car market is still dominated by Toyota.
Throw in Honda’s and
Hyundai’s hybrid vehicles and
even Ford’s Fusion hybrid, it
is very evident that GM faces
an incredible deal of competition, and thus far hasn’t been
able to outperform its competitors to be considered a toptier auto manufacturer.
Although GM has made
gains over the past two years
that should be recognized,
mainstream news titles of “record profits for GM” are misleading. These types of titles
are prone to gain more attention than titles such as “GM
is improving” and are con-

structed for easy linkage into
politics.
GM still faces a great deal of
problems. GM over time will
either sink or swim depending on its ability to innovate
and compete in international
markets.
Cost cuts, though necessary and beneficial in the
short term, are not the panacea to slow overseas growth,
and GM’s ability to compete
with strong firms such as Toyota will be dictated by their
success or failure in innovation and increased sales in the
emerging markets.
With an improving balance sheet, committed management and increased investment into research and
development, GM will have
a chance to prove their critics wrong in the future, but
lets not call mission accomplished before its actually
accomplished.

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form in The Daily Athenaeum office no later than three days prior to
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Information may also be faxed to
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THE WEEK AHEAD
TODAY
FEBRUARY 24

GLOBAL INTERVARSITY
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP AT
WVU, a hospitable community
for international students and
scholars, meets at 6 p.m. for
community dinner and Bible discussion. For more information,
email sarahderoos@live.com.

EVERY FRIDAY

LUNCH FOR A BUCK takes place
at the Campus Ministry Center
on the corner of Willey and Price
streets. For more information, call
304-292-4061.
THE CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT
CENTER offers a free Shabbat Dinner every Friday at 7 p.m. at the
Chabad House. For more information, email Rabbi@JewishWV.org or
call 304-599-1515.
WVU HILLEL offers a Shabbat Dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at
1420 University Ave. For more information or a ride, call 304-685-5195.
CAMPUS LIGHT MINISTRIES
hosts its weekly meeting and Bible
study at 7 p.m. in the Bluestone
Room of the Mountainlair.

EVERY SATURDAY

OPEN GYM FOR VOLLEYBALL is
from 2-4 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center. No commitment or
prior experience is necessary. Just
show up and play. For more information, email Mandy at mhatfie3@
mix.wvu.edu.
CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John
University Parish at 5 p.m.
TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS FOR
SELF-DEFENSE meets at 10:30 a.m. in
Multipurpose Room A of the Student
Recreation Center.

EVERY SUNDAY

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH offers services at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
The church is located on the corner
of Spruce and Willey streets.
WVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE club team holds practice at 3
p.m. at St. Francis Fields.
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF
LATTER-DAY SAINTS offers a service
for students at 10 a.m. at the chapel
on Willey Street. For more information, call 304-296-7538.
WVU HILLEL offers a Bagel Brunch
at 12:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at
1420 University Ave. For more information or a ride, call 304-685-5195.
MOUNTAINEERS FOR CHRIST
hosts a supper at 6 p.m. and a bible
study at 7 p.m. at the Christian Student Center at 2923 University Ave.
PAINTBALL TEAM practices at
Mountain Valley Paintball Park. For
more information, visit www.wvupaintball.com or email wvupaintball@gmail.com.
CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP hosts free dinner at 6:15 p.m.
followed by a worship service at 7
p.m. at 2901 University Ave. For
more information, email Gary Gross
at grossgary@yahoo.com.
SIGMA THETA EPSILON, a National
Christian Service Fraternity, would
like to invite any men interested in
the fraternity to attend its meeting
at 5 p.m. at the Campus Ministry
Center. For more information, email
sigmathetawvu@gmail.com.
CATHOLIC MASS is held at St.
John University Parish at 8:30 a.m.,
10 a.m., 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. All
are welcome.
SINGLE ADULT DINNER for the
never-married, widowed and di-

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run. Due to space limitations, announcements will only run one day
unless otherwise requested. All nonUniversity related events must have
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calendar.
If a group has regularly scheduled meetings, it should submit all

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The editors reserve the right
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vorced is held at 5 p.m. More infor- 11 a.m.-noon. The closet sells conmation, call 866-948-6441 or visit doms for 25 cents each or five for
$1.00.
www.SingleFocusMinistries.org.
THE WELLWVU CONDOM CARAVAN is held in the main area of the
CONTINUAL
WELLNESS PROGRAMS on top- Mountainlair from noon-2 p.m. evics such as drinkWELL, loveWELL, ery Wednesday. The caravan sells
chillWELL and more are provided condoms for 25 cents each or five
for interested student groups, or- for $1.00.
MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEUTER ASganizations or classes by WELLWVU:
Wellness and Health Promotion. For SISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volunmore information, visit www.well. teer nonprofit that promotes spay/
neuter to reduce the number of
wvu.edu/wellness.
WELLWVU: STUDENT HEALTH is homeless pets that are euthanized
paid for by tuition and fees and is every year. M-SNAP needs new
confidential. For appointments or members to help its cause, as does
more information, call 304-293-2311 ReTails, a thrift shop located in the
or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical. Morgantown Mall. For more inforNARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets mation, visit www.m-snap.org.
THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN
nightly in the Morgantown and FairIN SCIENCE meets on the second
mont areas. For more information,
Monday and fourth Tuesday of evcall the helpline at 800-766-4442 or
ery month at noon at Hatfields in the
visit www.mrscna.org.
Mountainlair. All students and facALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets
ulty are invited. For more informadaily. To find a meeting, visit www.
tion, email amy.keesee@mail.wvu.
aawv.org. For those who need help
edu.
urgently, call 304-291-7918.
THE CHEMISTRY LEARNING CENCARITAS HOUSE, a local non- TER, located on the ground floor of
profit organization serving West Vir- the Chemistry Research Laboratoginians with HIV/AIDS, needs do- ries, is open Monday through Friday
nations of food and personal care 9 a.m-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. Monday
items and volunteers to support through Wednesday.
all aspects of the organization’s acFREE STUDENT SUCCESS SUPtivities. For more information, call PORT, presented by the WVU Office
304-985-0021.
of Retention and Research, helps
SCOTT’S RUN SETTLEMENT students improve on time manHOUSE, a local outreach organi- agement, note taking reading and
zation, needs volunteers for daily study skills as well as get help with
programs and special events. For the transition to WVU. Free drop-in
more information or to volunteer, tutoring is also available every night
email vc_srsh@hotmail.com or call of the week in different locations. For
304-599-5020.
more information, visit http://retenCONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING tion.wvu.edu or call 304-293-5811.
SERVICES are provided for free by
THE M-TOWN MPOWERMENT
the Carruth Center for Psychologi- PROJECT, a community-building
cal and Psychiatric Services. A walk- program run by and geared toin clinic is offered weekdays from 9 ward young gay or bisexual men
a.m.-4 p.m. Services include edu- 18 to 29, is creating an environcational, career, individual, couples ment in the Morgantown commuand group counseling. Please visit nity where young men can feel emwww.well.wvu.edu to find out more powered to make a difference in
information.
their lives. MPowerment also foWOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN cuses on HIV and STD prevention edneeds volunteers. WIC provides edu- ucation. For more information, call
cation, supplemental foods and im- 304-319-1803.
munizations for pregnant women
COMMUNITY NEWCOMERS CLUB
and children under five years of age. is a group organized to allow new
This is an opportunity to earn volun- residents of the Morgantown area an
teer hours for class requirements. For opportunity to gather socially and
more information, call 304-598-5180 assimilate into their new home comor 304-598-5185.
munity. For more information, visit
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a www.morgantownnewcomers.com.
United Way agency, is looking for
NEW SPRING SEMESTER GROUP
volunteers to become Big Brothers THERAPY OPPORTUNITIES are availand Big Sisters in its one-on-one able for free at the Carruth Center.
community-based and school-based The groups include Understanding
mentoring programs. To volunteer, Self and Others, A Place for You, Sexcall Sylvia at 304-983-2823, ext. 104 ual Assault Survivors Group, Social
or email bigs4kids@yahoo.com.
Anxiety Group and Solution Focused
ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, Therapy Group. For more informawhich provides a place for adult pa- tion, call 304-293-4431 or email
tients and their families to stay while tandy.mcclung@mail.wvu.edu.
receiving medical care at WVU, is
THE FRIENDS OF THE MORGANlooking for service organizations TOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY are seekto provide dinner for 20 to 40 Fam- ing new members and volunteers
ily House guests. For more informa- for weekly book sale inventory. For
tion, call 304-598-6094 or email rfh@ more information, inquire at the
wvuh.com.
front desk on Spruce St., downstairs
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seek- during sales every Tuesday and the
ing volunteers for one-on-one tu- first and third Saturday of every
toring in basic reading and English month or call 304-292-7579.
as a second language. Volunteer tuTHE ROYCE J. AND CAROLINE
tors will complete tutor training, B. WATTS MUSEUM, located in the
meet weekly with their adult learn- Mineral Resources Building on the
ers, report volunteer hours quar- Evansdale Campus, presents its latterly, attend at least two in-service est exhibit “Defying the Darkness:
trainings per year and help with one The Struggle for Safe and Sufficient
fundraising event. For more infor- Mine Illumination” through July
mation, call 304-296-3400 or email 2012. The exhibit focuses on the
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history mining lights, and displays a
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HOROSCOPES
BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

Tonight: Find your friends.

vorite form of relaxation.

BORN TODAY This year you demonstrate your skills with dealing with financial changes. If you feel fortunate, buy a
lottery ticket. Remain in tune with your
budget, even if someone is talking about
a risk. Do not create a problem. If you are
single, be careful, as your work could become far less of a priority if you meet
that special person. Romance flourishes
through May and into 2013. Power plays
take on an important role when relating
to others. If you are attached, learn not to
play into a sweetie’s controlling ways. Be
nonreactive. ARIES might become very
pushy. Learn the word “no.”

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHH You
see life from another perspective. An
early upset could be somewhat difficult
to come back from. It hits you harder
than it does most people. Discussions
evolve, and you will see the other side
of a situation. Tonight: Chill out at dinner.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)
HHHHH The fire associated with your
sign comes out full blast. You need to
handle a personal matter differently,
especially if it revolves around a power
play. Listen to what is being shared. Tonight: Act like it is Friday night.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You
hear news that gets you going this morning. Detach rather than react. You will
make better decisions as a result. You
might feel as if you have to do too much.
Be careful about changing your schedule; you could upset a key person. Tonight: Opt for something different.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HH Others don’t know what ails you, but they
recognize that you are not feeling up to
snuff. You might be suppressing more
emotions than you realize, creating a
withdrawn attitude. You will see a situation far differently if you relax and open
up. Tonight: Refuse to get caught up in
a power play.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH
Observe a tendency to do the unexpected or to experience quiet jolts in
your life. Strap on your seatbelt. A powerful person in your life could be difficult
and controlling. You just might decide to
walk away. Tonight: All smiles.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH
Take your time making a decision. You
might not be able to honor a request
from your in-laws or someone at a distance. It is possible that your saying “no”
could cause a problem when you least
expect it. Be willing to see a situation
through another person’s eyes. Tonight:
Head home.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHHH
Zero in on your priorities and find out
where your supporters are. A problem
with a partner or loved one could force
you to make a change. Refuse to get into
a power play at all costs. You won’t win.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Remain sensitive to a boss or higher-up
who means a lot to you. Discussions occur on a one-on-one level that help resolve a problem. Everyone wants events
to happen his or her way. Avoid a power
play by walking away from a controlling
individual. Tonight: Be a duo.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH Others are direct and know what they want.
You could feel unusually tense when
dealing with a key person. You sense a
hidden agenda. Do not play into what
you cannot see. Respond only to what is
agreed upon. Tonight: Where the fun is.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH
Pace yourself and take your time; you will
complete what is needed with more precision. Communication forces you to take
a different look at a situation, whether
you are open to it or not. Try to control
your intensity. Tonight: Indulge in a fa-

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH
Keep communication open. You might
hear something that is so surprising, that
even you need to sit down. Flex and get
into the spontaneity of the moment.
You might be more controlling than you
think. Note your reaction to a change. Tonight: Meet friends.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH You
might see a situation much differently
because of a change with your finances.
You pull the wild card financially. Do not
indulge a knee-jerk reaction. Look to the
long-term. A friend might push too hard
to have you follow his or her lead. Tonight: Treat a friend to munchies and a
drink.
BORN TODAY Co-founder of Apple
Steve Jobs (1955), singer George Thorogood (1950), Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman (1942)

COMICS

Pearls Before Swine

by Stephan Pastis

F Minus

by Tony Carrillo

Get Fuzzy

by Darby Conley

Cow and Boy

by Mark Leiknes

PUZZLES
DIFFICULTY LEVEL HARD

Complete the grid so each row, column
and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains
every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to
solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Every year there is so much
hype surrounding the “Big
Five” Academy Awards – Best
Picture, Best Director, Best
Actor, Best Actress, and Best
Screenplay – it’s easy to overlook the other categories.
While these awards are important, only seeing the films
nominated in five of the 24
categories cannot give you a
complete representation of
what innovative and beautiful films 2011 had to offer.
Don’t get caught up in the
spectacle surrounding the
Big Five this year, check out
some of the other films up for
nomination.
A good place to start in
your exploration of other
nominees is within the category of Best Foreign Language Film.
The other awards represent the best of the best in
English-language films, but
this category offers literally a
world of competition that the
films generally reflect.
Below you’ll find synopses of this year’s fantastic
nominees.

‘Monsieur Lazhar’
Mohamed Fellag
Sophie Nelisse
Emilien Neron

“Bullhead” – Belgium
Already the recipient
of multiple awards, “Bullhead” tells the complicated
story of steroid abusing,
cattle farm patriarch Jacky
Vanmarsenille.
Jacky gets involved in the
criminal activity of injecting hormones in his product to make the cattle more
marketable.
In the midst of his crooked
dealings with a mafia-like
hormone supplier a government agent investigating
beef production is killed, and
Jacky is reunited with a childhood friend.
As the film unfolds we
learn what consequences
Jacky will face for his shady
deeds while also being made
aware of a childhood incident that brought Jacky to this
point in his life.
The story is complex and
interesting, and the shots of
the Belgian countryside are
exquisite, but the single best
thing about the entire movie
is the performance of Matthias Schoenaerts, who plays
Jacky.
His portrayal of a man traumatized as a child is heartbreakingly convincing.
Schoenaerts spent two
years building muscle to play
the steroid-addled Jacky, and

‘A Separation’
Peyman Maadi
Leila Hatami
Sareh Bayat

his efforts produce the desired effect. He is intimidatingly large, and his rage and
power are palpable, so that
his mannerisms are often
reminiscent of a bull.
“Bullhead” is worth seeing if only to see an actor at
his best – living and breathing his role.
“Monsieur
Lazhar”
- Canada
This dramatic French-Canadian nominee is the touching story of an Algerian immigrant, Bachir Lazhar
(Mohamed Fellag), hired to
teach at an elementary school
in Montreal after the previous
teacher ended her life.
The film works with two
major issues, which are the
impact a teacher can have on
a child’s life and the effects
of the particularly rough life
Monsieur Lazhar lived in his
native country.
Monsieur Lazhar has experienced a personal tragedy of his own before coming to Montreal in which his
wife and two children were
murdered.
This aspect of the film
shines a light on the similarities between Lazhar and his
students and the ways people
learn to cope and move on.
While the immigration is-

‘Footnote’

Lior Ashkenazi
Shlomo Bar-Aba
Yuval Scharf

sues and conflicts with unconcerned parents are frustrating throughout the story,
Fellag maintains a character
who is optimistic in the face
of unfortunate odds and who
serves as inspiration for anyone experiencing loss.

‘In Darkness’

Robert Wieckiewicz
Benno Furmann
Agnieszka Grochowska

tradition and the past.
“Footnote” – Israel
It seems the Academy is
fond of familial dramas this
year, because “Footnote” is
the Israeli nominee about
competition between a father
and his son.
Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo
Bar-Aba) and his son Uriel
(Lior Ashkenazi) are both expert scholars in their field of
Talmudic studies. Eliezer is
never recognized for his labors, whereas Uriel is always
receiving praise.
That is, until one day when
Eliezer learns he will be
awarded the highest honor
he could receive.
When his father is finally
gaining some success Uriel
must determine whether
his drive for his own success should outweigh the accomplishments of the man in
whose footsteps he follows
Because this film hits on
the old oedipal anxieties but
twists them in a new way, this
bleakly funny tale is sure to
be an enduring addition to
this common motif.

“A Separation” – Iran
“A Separation” is an intense, yet personal Iranian
drama about the ramifications of a dissolving marriage.
Simin (Leila Hatami) wants
to leave Iran, and she wants
to do so with her husband,
Nader (Peyman Maadi), and
daughter, Termeh (Sarina
Farhadi).
However, her husband
stubbornly resists this because of a sense of loyalty
he feels to his father, who is
suffering from Alzheimer’s
Disease.
Feeling frustrated at her
husband’s insistence on staying, Simin files for divorce.
However, because she still
loves her husband and can
identify no real faults in his
character, officials will not
grant them the divorce. And,
so they decide to separate.
The rest of the film details
“In Darkness” – Poland
Of all the film directors on
the way their relationship
unravels in a way that makes this list, you may be familviewers question why we of- iar with Agnieszka Holland’s
ten feel we have “duties” to work, as she is responsible

for such films as “Europa,
Europa” and “The Secret
Garden.”
If you know her work, you
know she is at her best when
relating grim stories, and “In
Darkness” is no exception.
The film is based on the
true story of morally questionable sewer worker Leopold Socha’s (Robert Wieckiewicz) discovery of a small
group of Jewish people trying to escape as the ghettos
are being emptied.
Seeing an opportunity for
financial gain, Socha agrees
to hide the escapees underground in the sewers, but
finds himself questioning
his motives as he comes into
contact with the people he is
protecting.
While its similarity to
other holocaust films such
as “Schindler’s List” might
make this seem like another
in a long list, the moral dilemma is more fleshed out in
this film than in many of its
predecessors.
And, although Socha initially has questionable motives, it’s always interesting to
learn about another person
willing to risk their personal
well-being in the face of the
evil that was the holocaust.
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Nostalgic Oscars party like it’s the 1920s
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar
show producer Brian Grazer
says that the Hollywood &
Highland Center, the hall formerly known as the Kodak
where the ceremony takes
place, will be redesigned to resemble a “timeless movie theater.” It’s a fitting transformation
on a night whose key nominees
are “Hugo” and “The Artist,” two
love songs to forebears of the
flickering image.
Set amid the transition from
silent cinema to talking pictures
in the late 1920s, “The Artist” is
the best-picture favorite and
would become the only silent
movie to win top honors since
the first Oscar show 83 years
ago.
The leader with 11 nominations, “Hugo” was made by
Martin Scorsese, arguably Hollywood’s biggest cheerleader
for the rediscovery and preservation of early films. Adapted
from Brian Selznick’s children’s
book “The Invention of Hugo
Cabret,” the film centers on a
boy and girl in 1930s Paris who
unravel a mystery surrounding
French film pioneer Georges
Melies (Ben Kingsley), whose
fantastical silent-era shorts of
100 years ago or more are recreated by Scorsese using the
best technology modern digital
Hollywood has to offer.
Known for tough, violent
adult stories such as “Raging
Bull” and best-picture winner “The Departed,” Scorsese
clearly had a ball making his
first digital 3-D film. Using today’s technology to revisit the
past also imparted a sense of
the innovation required by Melies to make his films in the first
place.
“Every time we put the camera in a position I wanted, we
discovered new ways to do
things or wrong ways to do
things,” Scorsese said. “We
had to rediscover how to make
movies every day, every setup.”
“The Artist” is right behind
with 10 nominations and also
is favored to win best director
for French filmmaker Michel
Hazanavicius. People thought
he was a little soft in the head a
few years ago when Hazanavicius pitched his idea of making a black-and-white silent
film the way almost no one has
since the 1920s.
Modern dabblers in silent
cinema often take an avant-

garde approach, but Hazanavicius wanted to make something
for general audiences. After all,
there was a time when silent
movies were the only game in
town, and Charles Chaplin,
Buster Keaton and D.W. Griffith
were the blockbuster filmmakers of their era.
Writer-director Hazanavicius
settled on a comic melodrama
following the decline of a silentfilm superstar (best-actor nominee Jean Dujardin), whose career crumbles in the sound era
and who finds a guardian angel
in a rising talent (Berenice Bejo,
a supporting-actress contender
and Hazanavicius’ real-life romantic partner).
“One of my concerns was
how people are going to react to
a silent movie now,” Hazanavicius said. “I thought it was easier for people to accept, to see
a silent movie if the subject is
about a silent actor. As an audience, to say, `OK, it’s a silent actor, it’s a silent movie. Why not?
That makes sense.’”
On a nostalgia-tinged night,
it also makes sense that Billy
Crystal returns as Oscar host
for the first time in eight years.
The most-beloved modern Oscar emcee, Crystal is back for
his ninth time, second only to
Bob Hope, who was host at 19
ceremonies.
Along with “Hugo” and
“The Artist,” which span the
early 1900s through the 1930s,
key nominees cover the last
century, from Steven Spielberg’s World War I saga “War
Horse” to Stephen Daldry’s
Sept. 11-themed drama “Extremely Loud & Incredibly
Close” and Alexander Payne’s
contemporary family story “The
Descendants.”
All are among the nine bestpicture contenders, joined by
Woody Allen’s romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris,” which
time travels from today to the
1920s and earlier; Tate Taylor’s
Deep South drama “The Help,”
set at the start of the 1960s civilrights movement; Bennett Miller’s baseball story “Moneyball,”
chronicling the Oakland A’s efforts to build a winning team
on a penny-pinching budget;
and Terrence Malick’s family
drama “The Tree of Life,” an elegiac tale largely set in the 1950s,
with sweeping glimpses back to
the dawn of creation.
The latter two star Brad Pitt,

a best-actor nominee for “Moneyball.” The A-list crowd also includes acting nominees George
Clooney for “The Descendants,”
Meryl Streep for the Margaret
Thatcher story “The Iron Lady,”
Glenn Close for the Irish drama
“Albert Nobbs” and Michelle
Williams and Kenneth Branagh
for the Marilyn Monroe tale
“My Week with Marilyn.”
Williams as Monroe and
Branagh as Laurence Olivier
bring another dose of old-time
Hollywood to Sunday’s show,
their film chronicling the uneasy collaboration between the
screen legends on the set of the
1957 romance “The Prince and
the Showgirl.”
The record-holder with 17
acting nominations, Golden
Globe winner Streep looked
like an early favorite to claim
her third Oscar, which would be
almost its own bit of nostalgia:
She hasn’t won in nearly three
decades.
But at the Screen Actors
Guild Awards, one of the mostaccurate forecasts for Oscar
night, Viola Davis beat Streep
for best actress for her role as a
maid taking a stand against racial prejudice in 1960s Mississippi in “The Help.”
While Davis and Streep are
in a showdown for best actress,
“The Artist” star Dujardin and
“The Descendants” star Clooney, playing a father weighed
down by family crises, are in
a two-man race for best actor.
Dujardin won the SAG honor
and a Golden Globe for musical
or comedy performance, while
Clooney was the recipient of the
Globe for dramatic actor.
SAG recipient Christopher
Plummer is the front-runner
for supporting actor as an elderly dad who comes out as
gay in “Beginners,” and at 82,
he would become the oldest
acting winner ever. Davis’ costar - Octavia Spencer, playing a
brash fellow maid in “The Help”
- also won at SAG and looks like
a rock-solid winner for supporting actress.
An Oscar would cap a venerable career for Plummer and
mark an abrupt career transformation for Spencer, who toiled
in small parts for years before
her breakout role in “The Help.”
“I’m an Oscar nominee. I
love saying that,” Spencer said.
“So whatever happens, I can always say that.”

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

Friday February 24, 2012

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 7

Street Style: WVU Student Style
John Perry

Senior | Theatre

“I’m wearing my dance clothes right now; wool
socks with my WVU dance pants, American Apparel v-neck and this flannel I picked up at the
Goodwill, the boots are from ALDO. When I’m on
campus my style priority is comfort first. When I’m
not on campus and running around, I’m pretty
urban preppy. ”

LAURa MEGaHAN

Sophomore | International studies
“I’m wearing pants from American Apparel
and a sweater from H&M. I would describe
my style as street style. A lot of my influences
are from British models and musicians; the
UK influences me a lot, I really like the style
of Alice Dellal.”

photos and reporting by BROOKE CASSIDY

Makeup: Go bold or go home
Christina Gutierrez

A&E WRITEr

The newest trends in makeup
this season are to be extreme.
In other words, go bold or go
home.
At this year’s New York Fashion Week, models sported an
array of differently shaped and
colored clothing. The makeup
that accompanied was no
different.
With this season’s designers
having been inspired by the basic nude-or-natural colors for
clothing, the focus has shifted
toward the boldness in makeup.
One of the key features is a
bright red lip. So many women
don’t think they can pull off red
lipstick. That, of course, is not
at all true.
The trick is to know what
shade best suits your skin tone
and, perhaps most importantly,
what will fit your ensemble.
Keep in mind what statements
designers like Michael Kors
were making this year and keep

your outfit as simple as possible.
A pair of blue jeans and white
T-shirt may seem boring and
bland- lacking the perfect accessory. So, the next time you
find yourself in this predicament, reach for a great tube
of lipstick and not that clunky
necklace you’ve been holding
onto so dearly all year.
When picking your shade,
never rule out a color. Pick
the color you want and decide
whether it should be a darker
or lighter tone. A general rule of
thumb is the lighter the skin, the
darker and brighter the shade
should be. Save the neon and
pastels for August.
If you’re still not comfortable with the red lipstick just
yet, do the complete opposite.
Try a nude shade with a bold,
loud patterned outfit or heavy
eye makeup.
Despite popular belief, it
is possible to wear a lot of
makeup without showing it. In
fact, sometimes it takes more
makeup to get that perfect,
fresh-faced look.
And if you’re really ready for
the summer and the wonder-

ful, natural glow it brings, play
up your skin.
Make sure to moisturize. Try
a tinted shade. CoverGirl and
Maybelline, for example, have
tons of great shades.
Next choose a bronzer with
a little shimmer, lightly brush it
over your face and darker under cheekbones and beside the
eyes.
A nice, pinkish blush across
the cheekbone will give you
that perfect sun-kissed looked
the Donna Karan models from
fashion week.
Lastly, try a light shimmery
shade all over eyelids, use the
same bronzer as definition in
the crease and finish off with a
thick coat of dark mascara on
corners and bottom lashes.
These simple tips will make
your eyes look bigger and
cheekbones look higher.
When shopping for this
quickly approaching spring season, remember what you wear
on your face is equally as, if not
more, important than what goes
on your body.
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Cirque Dreams come true at CAC
by Christina Gutierrez
A&E WRITER

The West Virginia University Arts’ Series will be presenting the highly anticipated,
Cirque Dreams’ “Pop Goes
the Rock,” at the Creative Arts
Center March 4.
“Pop Goes the Rock” is
the latest production of the
critically acclaimed Cirque
Dreams brand. Having performed everywhere from Las
Vegas to Broadway, Cirque
Dreams has generated a following in Morgantown.
“Previous appearances by
Cirque Dreams have sold out,
so we knew the WVU and Morgantown audiences connected
with the performances and enjoyed them,” said David Ryan,
public relations specialist for
WVU Arts & Entertainment.
The upcoming performance
has proven that the desire to
see the show has not declined
in the least.
“Cirque Dreams’ shows are
known for being energetic

and incredible performances,
so we’re expecting the soldout crowd to have an exciting
time,” Ryan said.
The incredible performance
will feature a variety show with
more than 100 costumed characters with mash-ups of some
of the centuries’ most popular
pop and rock hits.
In addition to the unique
combination of musical mashups, Cirque Dreams is perhaps
most noted for their impressive performance acts like
daring aerialists and gravity
defying balancers.
The team works diligently
all year around to create an
unforgettable and exciting
performance each time.
“Cirque Dreams’ shows are
bright, colorful and guaranteed to entertain. Everything
from set design and costuming add to the heights already
set by the performances themselves,” Ryan said.
The show is not one to
be missed, and the thousand-plus Morgantown res-

SHAY Maunz

idents who enthusiastically
awaited the arrival of the now
completely sold-out Cirque
Dreams show will not be
disappointed.
“The fact these shows all sell
out is a testament to how incredible these performers are
and how audiences connect
with them.
Because of the range in musical selections and captivating colors and stunts, the performances welcome all ages.
“It’s a show we think the
whole family can enjoy. Incredible acrobatic stunts, extravagant costumes and music from generation. There’s
something for everyone,” Ryan
said.
Cirque Dreams’ “Pop Goes
the Rock” will be held at the
WVU Creative Arts Center on
March 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are currently soldout. For more information call
the Mountainlair and Creative
Arts Center box offices.
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Senior | Print journalism

“I’m wearing J Brand jeans and my shoes are
Dolce Vita. My scarf is from a thrift store and my
coat I’ve had for years, is Calvin Klein. I like to get
dressed up but at the same time keep it casual. I
go thrift store shopping a lot, and I just work my
style around crazy things. The earrings I’m wearing are my moms from the 80’s.”

The West Virginia University Symphony Orchestra
continued its 2011-12 performance season Thursday
night.
The WVUSO is comprised
is comprised of both WVU
students and community
residents.
They performed of Antonin Dvorak’s “Symphony
No. 8 in G Major,“ “Christmas Dance” from “Suite
for Viola and Orchestra” by
Ralph Vaughan Williams and
Bedrich Smetana’s “Vltana”

(“The Moldau”).
Smetana completed Vltava in late 1874.
It was first performed in
Prague in April 1875. Vltava
is the second in a cycle of
six tone poems entitled Ma
Vlast (My Country) that was
composed between 1874 and
1879.
Smetana first became intrigued with the idea of composing a symphonic tone
poem during an 1857 visit to
Weimar where he met Franz
Liszt and heard Liszt’s tone
poem Die Ideale.
WVU viola professor Andrea Priester Houde, made

her WVUSO debut with Max
Bruch’s “Romance for Viola
and Orchestra.”
Houde, an assistant professor of viola is an active
performer for the West Virginia Piano Quartet, and
she was the former Principal Viola for the Lancaster
Symphony.
She also performed for
nine years with the Maryland
Symphony.
Houde was an instructor
of viola at the University of
Delaware for five years before coming to WVU.
Her versatility has led to
such opportunities as per-

forming tango with Astor
Piazzolla’s god son, Marcelo
Nisinman, and playing in
a rock band on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy
Center.
“This symphony has both
its moments of gleaming
sunshine and dark turmoil,”
said conductor Mitchell Arnold, director of Orchestral
Studies at WVU in a press
release.
“Dvorak pours out melodies with great ease and
love of life. It is a symphony
which speaks for the Czech
spirit.”
Arnold received a doc-

torate in conducting from
Northwestern University and
has an extensive background
in new music.
Before coming to WVU, he
was director of orchestras
at Northern Illinois University and assistant director of
orchestras at Northwestern
University.
He has also served on the
faculties at Oberlin College
Conservatory of Music and
Baldwin-Wallace College
Conservatory of Music.
Houde, an assistant professor of viola is an active
performer for the West Virginia Piano Quartet, and

she was the former Principal Viola for the Lancaster
Symphony.
She also performed for
nine years with the Maryland
Symphony.
The West Virginia University Symphony Orchestra will
be continuing their performance schedule on March
14th and April 19th in the Lyell B. Clay Theatre at the Creative Arts Center.
For more information on
upcoming WVU student music performances, you can
visit www.cac.wvu.edu
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‘Come Fly Away’ comes to CAC
By Elizabeth Finley
A&E Writer

There’s a new Broadway
musical making its way to
Morgantown this spring.
“Come Fly Away” is the creative vision of Twyla Tharp.
In the musical, Tharp utilizes
classic songs performed by
Frank Sinatra.
The show is part of the West
Virginia University Arts’ Series and is made possible by
a special arrangement with
the Frank Sinatra Family and
Frank Sinatra Enterprises
The musical features a
live, onstage big band to accompany Tharp’s famous
choreography.
The storyline is one that
everyone can relate to – it’s
about different couples falling in and out of love.
As the musical progresses,
the 14 dancers learn lifelong lessons about love and
loss; the audience sees all the
stages of a young relationship
– from the first kiss to the final,
bittersweet goodbye.
As with any musical,

“Come Fly Away” is obviously
all about the music. The production features a wide array of Sinatra’s famous works,
such as “Fly Me to the Moon,”
“My Way,” “New York, New
York” and “Witchcraft.” And,
of course, the namesake song
“Come Fly with Me” is featured as well.
Richard Zoglin, from Time
Magazine, has claimed that
“Come Fly Away delivers the
purest jolt of pleasure to be
found on a Broadway stage.”
Similarly, Charles Isherwood
of The New York Times has
called it “spectacular and
dazzling!” and said that Twyla
Tharp’s electrifying celebration of the music of Frank
Sinatra will sweep you up in a
complete spell.”
The show is coming to the
WVU Creative Arts Center
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Sequel to viral video released
After the popularity of the
his first YouTube video “S--Nobody Says at WVU,” Patrick Cushing has released “S-- Nobody Says at WVU- The
Sequel.”
“I honestly enjoy putting
the videos together. Being
able to share one big inside
joke with the WVU community is a pretty cool feeling,”
Cushing said.
Some of the inside jokes
in the sequel video include “
I actually think I’m going to
go to night class instead of
Fallfest. Yeah, I knew there
was a pool in E. Moore Hall.

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There aren’t enough stairs on
campus.”
Cushing’s video is based
off the YouTube meme of “S-- nobody says.” Cushing is
a native of Morgantown and
graduated from Morgantown
High School in 2009.
He is a member of the club
soccer team and a member of
the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
He is studying exercise physiology with plans of attending
medical school.
You can watch the video at
www.youtube.com/pcushhh
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Friday February 24, 2012

DO OR DIE

West Virginia looks to bounce back
from loss against No. 10 Marquette
By John terry
managing Editor

WVU forward Kevin Jones is averaging 13. 5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game in his career against Marquette.

matt sunday/the daily athenaeum

Less than 48 hours after suffering its
worse this season, the West Virginia
men’s basketball team will be playing
for its season tonight against No. 10
Marquette.
The Golden Eagles have won 11 of
their last 12 games, including their last
four.
“Obviously, you’d like to have more
than one day to prepare,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins. “They’ve
just done a great job. They’re constantly
in attack mode.”
West Virginia is in desperate need of a
win in order to lock up a spot in its fifthstraight NCAA tournament.
It has lost six of its last eight games
and slipped in a tie for ninth place in the
Big East Conference with a 7-8 record.
Marquette’s last four wins have come
over DePaul, Cincinnati, Connecticut,
and Rutgers. The average margin of victory? 15.5 points. And it’s scoring 76.9
points per game this season.
West Virginia is scoring just 72.3
points per game but has scored less than
60 in two of its last four games.
“When you score a basket and you
want to look at your mother and wave
and they’ll run by you,” Huggins said.
“They’re extremely aggressive, and
they’ve got a lot of interchangeable players and (head coach Buzz Williams) does
a great job of rotating those interchangeable players.”
Marquette has eight players averaging
17 minutes per game.
It’s led by senior Darius JohnsonOdom who is scoring 18.7 points per
game and is shooting 45.4 percent from
the field, including a 40 percent mark
from 3-point range.
Jae Crowder is the only other player
on the roster averaging double-figure
scoring with 17.1 points per game, and

he leads the team with 7.7 rebounds as
well.
Between Johnson-Odom and Crowder,
the two have connected on 115 of Marquette’s 166 3-pointers this season.
The Mountaineers have struggled as
of late from distance. In its previous four
games, West Virginia is just 12-of-60.
West Virginia senior Kevin Jones will
most likely be the key to West Virginia’s
success. But Jones, who leads the team
averaging 20.3 points and 11.2 rebounds,
hasn’t scored 20 points in two games.
The last time he failed to score 20
points in back-to-back games was over
a three-game stretch between Dec. 28
and Jan. 4.
“He’s been phenomenal. We have
three returning guys and eight freshmen and obviously we don’t pass the
ball very well and we certainly have had
times where we forget who Kevin is, I
think,” Huggins said. “He’s been great.
He has such a great attitude, and he
doesn’t force things, he doesn’t try to
do things he can’t do.”
The Mountaineers are just 6-5 when
Jones fails to score 20 points in a game.
They’re 11-6 when he does.
“He’s been our one constant throughout – he’s been our only constant,” Huggins said. “I don’t think he’s getting the
notoriety nationally that he ought to get
because he’s not a high-flyer, he just
does his job every day and at the end
of the day, he’s going to get his 20 and
11 and does it on an incredibly consistent basis and we’ve played a heck of a
schedule.”
Senior Truck Bryant has started to get
back on track after his scoreless performance against Notre Dame Feb. 8. He’s
scored 38 points in the last three games,
although he is still shooting just 25.6 percent from the field, including a 3-of-17
mark from 3-point range.
john.terry@mail.wvu.edu

baseball

Mountaineers ready to head to South Carolina for three games
by ben gaughan

associate sports editor

The West Virginia baseball
team is taking its talents to
Myrtle Beach this weekend for
the Caravelle’s Resort Baseball
at the Beach tournament.
The Mountaineers (3-1) begin the tournament against
Virginia Tech Friday at 11 a.m.
and continue against N.C. State
Saturday at 3 p.m. and George
Mason Sunday at 11 a.m.
The game against George
Mason will be played at Coastal
Carolina’s home stadium in
Conway, S.C.
After coming off of a successful first weekend, West Virginia wants to continue its efficient hitting with runners in
scoring position. The Mountaineers actually got outhit
by their opponents in all four
games last weekend, according
matt sunday/the daily athenaeum to head coach Greg Van Zant.
Thanks to stellar defense
Head coach Greg Van Zant and the West Virginia baseball team will play Virginia Tech,
North Carolina State and George Mason this weekend.
and timely hitting West Vir-

Four reasons WVU fans
shouldn’t be worried yet
get to that later.)
The best thing about tonight,
john Terry
though, is that it’s being served
managing editor
up to West Virginia on a silver
platter – a home game, at 9 p.m.,
and the weather shouldn’t be
Wednesday night’s loss by the bad enough to prevent fans from
West Virginia men’s basketball filling the Coliseum.
team to Notre Dame was ugly.
Reason No. 2: There’s plenty
It was probably the worst I’ve
seen West Virginia play in the of season left to play
last four years. And while there’s
Four games is an eternity in a
no doubt for a need for some basketball season and more than
concern about the team’s NCAA enough time for West Virginia
tournament status, there’s no to spruce up its already good reneed to be pressing the panic sume for the tournament. As I
the button just yet.
mentioned above, a win against
Marquette would be the perfect
Reason No. 1: They can get a scenario for West Virginia, but
even if it can’t find a way to get
good win tonight
The Mountaineers might have the win Friday night, it still has
the best opportunity of all of the two winnable games against Debubble teams tonight when they Paul and South Florida.
host No. 10 Marquette. A win
Tuesday’s Senior Night
against the Golden Eagles would against DePaul is a must-win for
not only restore some faith back the Mountaineers if they want to
into the restless fanbase, but it go dancing. The Blue Demons
would also be the win the Moun- are last in the league with a 2-13
taineers need to punch their mark and are just 11-16 overall.
ticket into the big dance (assumThe season finale against the
ing a win against DePaul – we’ll Bulls on the road is also a win-

nable game, and one that will
spruce up the Mountaineer
resume.
The Bulls have been the surprise of the Big East this season, currently ranked No. 5 with
a 10-5 mark and almost pulled
the upset against No. 2 Syracuse
earlier this week.
If West Virginia finishes the
season 2-1, it’s most likely in. If
it wins all three, it’s in really good
shape.
Reason No. 3: They can play
with the best
There’s an easy counter to this
argument: “But they can’t beat
the top teams.”
Of course it would be better
if the Mountaineers could’ve
notched these wins, but they
didn’t. That doesn’t take away
that they were competitive in
five games against ranked teams
this season that they ended up
losing.
West Virginia lost to No. 7
Baylor by just two points, lost

see tErry on PAGE 10

ginia won three of its first four
games.
Redshirt sophomore leftfielder Matt Frazier is leading
the team with a .500 batting average and a slugging percentage of .857. The Alum Creek,
W.Va., native has seven hits
and four RBI’s coming into this
weekend’s tournament.
Sophomore first-baseman
Ryan McBroom also started
off hot as well, going 6-for-15
with three doubles, four RBI’s
and two runs scored.
Van Zant was impressed
with his third batter and feels
he shows all the right qualities
of a leader, both vocally and by
example.
Due to junior starting
catcher Matt Malloy being suspended indefinitely – redshirt
freshman catcher Max Nogay
caught three of the four games
last weekend for the first time
ever in his career.
The Mountaineers as a team
only made three errors in their

first four games, something
Van Zant was pleased with because his team is so young and
inexperienced.
He expects Virginia Tech to
be a very tough opponent.
“All ACC teams are good
teams,” Van Zant said.
The Hokies defeated Bradley twice and split games with
a good Kennesaw State team.
The Mountaineers will have to
play a sound, defensive game
to come out with an opening
win Friday.
Virginia Tech is expected to
start right-hander Manny Martir, who earned a no-decision
in seven innings, allowing one
run and recording eight strikeouts in his first start.
Van Zant said he may start
either redshirt sophomore
Marshall Thompson or sophomore Corey Walter against the
Hokies. Thompson went six
innings with one earned run
and five strikeouts in his first
matchup. Walter started the

first game of the season against
Northwestern, throwing 4.2 innings and giving up nine hits
and two earned runs.
The Mountaineer defense
was solid in the first weekend
of the season. The outfielders
were diving for fly balls and
making big plays, according
to Van Zant. The team is looking to keep up the big plays in
both the outfield and infield
to cap off another winning
weekend against some tough
opponents.
Van Zant has also been fairly
impressed with the Mountaineers bullpen so far. Austin
Pressly and Pen Nakazato both
posted ERA’s of 0.00, while giving up one hit each in a total of
five innings combined.
West Virginia will look to
pitch as many low-scoring
games as possible against another ACC team in N.C. State,
and George Mason.
ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

West Virginia had another chance to help solidify its NCAA tournament bid
Wednesday night against No.
18 Notre Dame.
The result was a 71-44 loss
in what was possibly the worst
performance by a Bob Huggins-coached WVU team.
It was the Mountaineers’
sixth loss in eight games and,
although the current cold
streak might not have been a
cause for concern a few weeks
ago, that has certainly changed
now.
Obviously, things can
change between now and Selection Sunday, but with the
way things are going now, it’s
not looking too promising.
Reason No. 1: Almost
doesn’t cut it
Throughout the season,

West Virginia has been close
to winning quite a few games
against very talented teams.
The Mountaineers lost by
two points to No. 2 Syracuse
and No. 13 Baylor, fell to No. 17
Louisville by three and had second-half leads crumble against
Notre Dame and UConn.
While nobody is saying any
of those losses are bad, all of
them are against very good
teams that will have a chance
to make the tournament – with
the exception of the Huskies,
who are in the same situation
as the Mountaineers.
But, unfortunately for West
Virginia, the selection committee doesn’t award points for “almost” beating a team. Closing
teams out at the end of a game
has been a big problem for the
Mountaineers all season, and
there’s a good chance it could
cost them when the brackets
come out in a few weeks.

ment resume, it says the Mountaineers are 9-9 against teams
in the top 100 of the RPI.
But who have those wins
been against?
The two big wins that look
really good are over Kansas
State and No. 9 Georgetown.
Those are, in my mind, the only
ones that will look great for the
Mountaineers to the selection
committee.
Victories against Marshall,
Cincinnati, Miami (Fla.), Oral
Roberts and Akron don’t look
bad, but will it really be enough
to make WVU look better than
some of the other bubble
teams fighting for a spot?
Five of those nine wins
against top-100 teams have
come at the Coliseum and
three more (Missouri State,
Kansas State and Marshall)
were at neutral sites. The only
away win in that list was last
Thursday’s win over Pittsburgh.
The Mountaineers are 1-5 on
Reason No. 2: Where are the road against top-100 teams,
the resume wins?
see carvelli on PAGE 10
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and 3-6 in true away games.
According to the current RPI
rankings, WVU’s third-best win
after Kansas State and Georgetown came against Oral Roberts
in its season-opener. I’m just
not sure if that resume will get
the Mountaineers in the tournament as of right now.
They can get two more wins
that will look better than the victory over the Golden Eagles if
they can come away with wins
over No. 10 Marquette or South
Florida.
Those wins would go a long
way in making their chances
much, much better.

venia last November and continued with 1-0 triumphs last month
over Venezuela and Panama.
“We’re looking forward to having all the European-based players back in the roster and picking
up where we left off with them
from the Slovenia game,” said
Klinsmann.
“It’s very important we get
these games and in particular
playing them on the road. That’s
when you really get players out
of their comfort zone and they
have to deal with a difficult environment on a physical and psychological level.
“Our roster is highly competitive and ready to give them a real
fight.”
Midfielder Michael Bradley is
the only member of the US squad
who is playing in Italy, having
started 22 Serie A matches for
Chievo.

Reason No. 3: KJ needs help
It seems like every time
WVU head coach Bob Huggins
speaks to the media, he gives
some variation of what he said
Thursday during the Big East
Conference teleconference.
“He’s been great. He has such
a great attitude and he doesn’t
try to do things he can’t do. He’s
been our only constant,” Huggins said. “We’ve played everybody, and KJ has carried us on
his back.”
Jones has been the best
player in the Big East all season,
and has been among the best
players in the country.
But except him, the Mountaineers have been plagued all
season by a crippling lack of
consistency from the rest of the
team.

“It’s going to be a special game
for Michael Bradley,” said Klinsmann, who replaced Bradley’s
father Bob as the US coach. “It
speaks well for him that he has
already established himself as a
consistent starter in a difficult
league.”
The Americans will prepare
for their start of North American World Cup 2014 qualifying
with home friendlies on May 26
against Scotland and May 30
against Brazil and a June 3 match
at Canada.
The first CONCACAF regional
qualifying match for the Americans will be at Tampa on June
8 against Antigua and Barbuda.
Guatemala and Jamaica are also
in the group, which will send two
teams into next year’s final qualifying for the 2014 showdown in
Brazil.
Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (As-

For a week or so, senior guard
Truck Bryant and junior forward Deniz Kilicli will emerge
and play really well, looking
like they could be KJ’s sidekick.
Then they’ll fall off and start
struggling again.
The large group of freshmen
has been just as enigmatic.
If West Virginia can’t find a
reliable second option to lean
on the rest of the season, it
will be very hard for Jones to
carry this team all the way to
the NCAA tournament on his
own.

good teams in high school prior
to this season; the three returners have been used to winning
games by the bunches since
they’ve been in Morgantown.
When you’re used to winning
that much, and the team is as
young as this one is, it can be
really hard to handle struggling
the way the Mountaineers have
struggled as of late.
If West Virginia really wants
to prove it is worthy of an atlarge bid, it will shake off those
struggles and finish the year on
a strong note.
That starts with protecting its
Reason No. 4: They’re not house and beating Marquette at
handling losing well
home tonight.
Nobody on this WVU team is
I guess we’ll just have to see
used to losing the way they are how it all turns out.
right now.
All the freshmen played on
james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu

Continued from page 9
to then-No. 16 Connecticut by
seven points after a controversial call in the closing minutes,
lost to then No. 4 Syracuse by a
bucket after the infamous goaltending no-call, lost to No. 18
Notre Dame by four and fell to
then-No. 23 Louisville by three
after a late collapse.
The selection committee
would rather have a team that
can compete with the top teams
than a mid-major that hasn’t
proved itself.
Reason No. 4: Not many bad
losses
Most bubble teams have
bad losses, but the good news
for West Virginia is that it’s only
had three, maybe four, horrible
losses this season.
A ten-point loss to Kent State
looks pretty bad, but it’s just the
second game of the season for
a team that was inundated with
young talent.
The 67-48 loss Seton Hall was
bad. There’s no getting around
that. And it hurts even more
than Seton Hall will be fighting
for one of the final NCAA tournament spots as well.
The Mountaineers loss to St.
John’s by 16 points was even
worse, and a six-point loss to
Pittsburgh at home hurts, too.
But if West Virginia can finish
out with a boom, its bad losses
won’t look any worse than any
of the other bubble teams’.
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women’s basketball

Mountaineers try to get out of slump against Cincinnati

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Head coach Mike Carey stands by the bench in West Virginia’s game against DePaul last Saturday. WVU has lost two consecutive games.

By Ben Gaughan

associate sports editor

The West Virginia women’s
basketball team looks to get
back on track as it travels to
Cincinnati Saturday to take on
the Bearcats after losing its last
two games.
The Mountaineers (19-8, 9-5
Big East) battled hard Tuesday against a good St. John’s
team, but weren’t able to
make a comeback in the second half. Cincinnati (15-12, 6-8
Big East), meanwhile, has won
four straight games – the last
two by an average of 15 points.
Redshirt sophomore guard

Dayeesha Hollins leads the
Bearcats, averaging 14.6 points
per game, while also averaging
4.2 rebounds per game. Cincinnati is led on the glass by sophomore forward Tiffany Turner
and senior forward Chanel
Chisholm with 5.9 and 5.8 rebounds per game, respectively
The Bearcats are a young
team, with only two seniors on
the roster, but they have a lot
of height and length. Five players are at least 6-feet tall and
five others are at least 5-foot10 or 5-foot-11. So, West Virginia’s low post players such
as juniors Ayana Dunning and
Asya Bussie will have another

tough game on the inside in
this matchup.
The Mountaineers managed
to get the ball inside to Dunning in their last game against
St. John’s – giving her a career night with 21 points and
16 rebounds – something they
failed to do in a miserable second half against DePaul last
Saturday.
So, WVU will have to work
the high-low posts once again
and play to its strength against
an athletic Cincinnati team.
Bussie still leads the team
at 12 points per game, but is
followed closely behind by
redshirt sophomore guard

Christal Caldwell, who averages 11.9 points per game
and is third on the team with
6.4 rebounds per game, as
well as sophomore guard Taylor Palmer, who averages 11.6
points per game despite seeing
a decrease in minutes the second half of the season.
Dunning leads the team on
the boards with 8.6 rebounds
per game, while scoring 8.3
points per game. Her outside
jumper has been much better in the latter part of the season as she has hit several shots
from about 15 feet away from
the basket over the last several
games.

Getting easy buckets for
Dunning and Bussie is going
to be key for the Mountaineers
to stop their two-game losing
skid on the road this weekend.
During West Virginia’s twogame losing streak, it has averaged just over seven points less
than its season average, so running the offense efficiently will
be crucial to getting the right
looks at the basket at the right
times.
Freshman guard Linda
Stepney has done a nice job
coming in as the starter by being aggressive and driving to
the rim. Sophomore guard
Brooke Hampton offers a nice

replacement off of the bench,
running the offense and looking for the right pass to set up
the team’s scorers. Both will
have to execute and get the
ball to other playmakers on
the team to secure a win for
the Mountaineers.
It’s not easy coming into a
hostile environment, especially against a team that is as
hot as Cincinnati is right now.
But, West Virginia is looking to
get back to winning ways Saturday, and it needs more wins
to secure its spot in the NCAA
tournament next month.
ben.gaughan@mail.wvu.edu

rifle

No. 3 WVU to compete for third straight GARC title
by alex sims
sports writer

Three of the nation’s top
four teams will converge on
the Patricia C. Lamar National
Guard Readiness Center in
Oxford, Miss., for the Great
American Rifle Conference
championships this weekend.
No. 3 West Virginia will be
shooting for its third consecutive GARC title against competition field that includes
No. 2 Kentucky and No. 4
Army.
Rounding out this year’s
field will be four more ranked
squads, No. 8 Mississippi, No.
11 Memphis, No. 12 Nebraska
and No. 17 N.C. State.

This year’s GARC regular
season title went to defending
national champion Kentucky,
which finished a perfect 6-0 in
conference play.
However, this weekend,
the Wildcats will be without
one of their top shooters, allAmerican Emily Holsopple.
The sophomore, Wilcox,
Pa., native will be in Camp
Perry, Ohio, at part two of
the U.S. Olympic team trials,
shooting for one of the two
Olympic quota places in air
rifle.
Holsopple registered an aggregate score of 1,170, tying
for second overall in a win
over WVU just a few weeks
ago.

West Virginia, on the other
hand, is expected to be at full
strength this weekend while
making its 10th appearance
at the GARC championships.
At last year’s championships, WVU topped eventual
national champion UK by 32
points, taking both smallbore
and air rifle in the process.
The story was much different at the 2010 GARC championships, however.
WVU secured a 20-point
victory advantage in the
smallbore category then had
to hold off a furious UK air rifle rally.
Though the Wildcats took
home the air rifle win, the
Mountaineers ended up edg-

ing their rival for an
8-point
champio n s h i p
triumph.
“It’s important for
us to not get
caught up Penz
in the Kentucky hype,”
said senior Justin Pentz.
“We need to think, ‘I’ve
been shooting ‘X-score’ this
week, and I’m going to try
to beat that score by score
by two points this weekend.’
And, with how we’re doing,
I think we will do very well
against Kentucky if we all can

do what we’ve been setting
out to do.”
This weekend’s match will
also serve as the first and final opportunity for the Mountaineers to duplicate the twoday format of next month’s
NCAA championships.
“It’s a really good preparation for championships,” said
West Virginia head coach Jon
Hammond.
“It’s hard to quantify how
much it’s going to help, but
as a shooter, we are creatures
of habit. We like to do things
the same way so you get that
extra comfort in being able to
go through that.”
The weekend will commence with a banquet on Fri-

day, and then the seven GARC
squads will take to the range
to decide a champion.
The smallbore competition will take place Saturday,
with the air rifle competition on Sunday, and the team
with the highest combined
score will be crowned GARC
champions.
“Obviously, we would
rather win the second one out
of these last two matches, but
it’s still our conference,” Hammond said. “The rivalry we
have with Kentucky is competitive, and we’d love the
opportunity to beat them any
chance we get.”
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